Local election in Nuremberg 2020
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The local elections in Nuremberg 2020 took place on March 15, 2020 , as in all of Bavaria . In addition to the Lord Mayor of Nuremberg, the City Council of Nuremberg was also elected. Marcus König ( CSU ) won the runoff election for mayor on March 29, 2020 .
Starting position
In the 2014 local elections , the turnout for 385,621 voters was 44.3%. For mayor was 67.1% Ulrich Maly selected. The strongest parliamentary group in the Nuremberg city council was the SPD with 44.1% of the votes (31 seats), ahead of the CSU (29.4%, 21 seats) and the Greens (9.0%, 6 seats). Since there is no threshold clause in local elections in Bavaria , the following parties are also represented: Die Linke Liste Nürnberg (4.1%, 3 seats), BIA (3.1%, 2 seats), Free Voters (2.8%, 2 Seats), ÖDP (2.1%, 2 seats), FDP (2.0%, 1 seat), Die Guten (1.7%, 1 seat) and the Pirates (1.7%, 1 seat).
The so-called grand coalition of the SPD and CSU, which existed from 2008 to 2014, was thus continued.
Innovations in the right to vote
The 2020 local elections were used for the first time to count using the Sainte-Laguë method , which replaced the Hare-Niemeyer method that had been in force since 2013 . The second votes of the parties are divided by a certain number, the so-called divisor, which has to be determined anew with each election. The number of mandates for each party is determined from the rounded results. It is considered to be the counting procedure with the least disadvantage for parties large and small. The CSU advocated a count based on the D'Hondt method .
The new Bavarian municipal electoral law also abolished list connections . In return, several lists from individual parties may be registered for election under certain conditions.
Voting districts
In the 2014 local elections there were 495 electoral districts, while there were 550 districts in the 2017 Bundestag election and 515 in the 2018 Bavarian elections and the 2019 European elections . These are made up of 375 voting districts and 140 postal voting districts. The number of postal voting districts increased by 9 to 149, so that there were a total of 524 voting districts in the election. The voting districts each include around 1,400 people with voting rights, are made up of building blocks and are delimited by roads and paths, railways or bodies of water.
Election of the Lord Mayor
In Nuremberg the title of the incumbent mayor is Lord Mayor . In the 2014 local elections, Ulrich Maly (SPD) was elected for the third time in the first ballot. The second and third mayors are elected from among its ranks by the city council. Christian Vogel (SPD) became second mayor, and Klemens Gsell (CSU) became third .
In March 2019, Ulrich Maly announced that he did not want to run again in the 2020 election.
The Bavarian municipal code allows an official election of candidates no earlier than one and a half years before the date of the local elections, the three largest parties have already determined their candidates early through different procedures:
The Nuremberg SPD had chosen its previous party chairman Thorsten Brehm as a candidate for the OB election. The 34-year-old was initially nominated in an intra-party procedure by the SPD party executive and confirmed at a party congress in May 2019. The 38-year-old Marcus König took up the post of Lord Mayor for the CSU . The board of the Nuremberg CSU nominated him as mayor candidate in May 2019. In addition to him, the party also sent the cultural advisor Julia Lehner into the race for mayor's office. A search team elected by the members submitted Verena Osgyan, the deputy leader of the Greens in the Bavarian state parliament, to the board of the Nuremberg Greens . The board followed the suggestion. At the annual general meeting on June 27, 2019, the nomination was officially confirmed by the members with 97.4 percent of the votes cast. The Nuremberg FDP announced at the beginning of July that it would be campaigning with the German-Turkish Ümit Sormaz. The amalgamation of left-wing groups under the name Linke Liste Nürnberg unanimously nominated Marion Padua, who had already started in 2014 , as the top candidate. The DIE LINKE party , which was previously a member of the Left List Nuremberg alliance, ran its own list for the first time in the 2020 local elections. The deputy district council president of Middle Franconia and Nuremberg city councilor Titus Schüller was chosen as the top candidate. The community of voters Die Guten nominated Philipp Schramm as their candidate for the office of Lord Mayor. The AfD entered with the business graduate Roland Hübscher as a candidate for the mayor. The free voters again applied for the mayor's office with Jürgen Horst Dörfler, the citizens' initiative Ausländerstopp with Fridrich Luft, and the ÖDP with Christian Rechholz. The pirates competed in the election together with the party Die PARTTEI under the name Die PARTTEI / Piraten with a joint list and nominated Florian Betz as their candidate for mayor. The necessary 610 votes for their candidacy and their OB candidate were achieved on January 24, 2020.
The following candidacies failed due to a lack of support signatures and therefore did not take part in the election:
- Klaus Wahner for the Bavarian Party
- Siegfried Schüller for the "STARK for Nuremberg" alliance
First ballot
The preliminary final result of the first ballot for the election of the Lord Mayor on March 15, 2020 after counting all 524 voting districts is as follows:
| Atomic number | Party / electoral association | OB candidate | Political office | image | Votes (absolute) | Votes (in percent) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CSU | Marcus King | City council | 66,521 | 36.45% | |
| 5 | SPD | Thorsten Brehm | City council | 63,742 | 34.93% | |
| 2 | GREEN | Verena Osgyan |
Member of the state parliament , deputy parliamentary group chairman |
27,535 | 15.09% | |
| 4th | AfD | Roland-Alexander Huebscher | - | 7,696 | 4.22% | |
| 13 | THE LEFT | Titus Schüller | City Councilor, Deputy District President |
|
4,631 | 2.54% |
| 3 | FW | Jürgen Dörfler | City council |
|
3,306 | 1.81% |
| 11 | PARTY / PIRATES | Florian Betz | - |
|
2.153 | 1.18% |
| 9 | ÖDP | Christian Rechholz | - |
|
2,029 | 1.11% |
| 6th | FDP | Ümit Sormaz | - | 1,905 | 1.04% | |
| 7th | LEFT LIST Nuremberg | Marion Padua | Councilor |
|
1,469 | 0.80% |
| 8th | BIA | Fridrich Luft | City council | 869 | 0.48% | |
| 10 | The good ones | Philipp Schramm | - | 637 | 0.35% |
Second ballot
Since both Marcus König (CSU) and Thorsten Brehm (SPD) missed an absolute majority in the first ballot, there was a runoff between these two candidates on March 29, 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the runoff vote was carried out purely as a postal vote. In the run-up, the FDP and the Free Voters made a recommendation for Marcus König, the political gang for Thorsten Brehm. The left spoke with the words "Nuremberg elects the Lord Mayor ... no King" against the CSU man as Lord Mayor. The Greens , on the other hand, refrained from making an election recommendation, given the lack of agreement between the two candidates with their own environmental and transport policy. The result of the runoff election was only expected on Monday, one day after the election, due to the fact that it was carried out as a purely postal vote and due to the lack of election workers, but was already certain on the evening of the runoff day. The CSU candidate König prevailed against the SPD candidate Brehm with 52.17% of the votes cast. The second CSU Lord Mayor in Nuremberg since 1945 is expected to start on May 1, 2020.
| Atomic number | Political party | candidate | image | Votes (absolute) | Votes (in percent) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CSU | Marcus King | 103,926 | 52.17% | |
| 5 | SPD | Thorsten Brehm | 95.176 | 47.83% |
Mode, polls, runoff
In the event that none of the applicants achieves an absolute majority (50%) in the first ballot, the Bavarian municipal electoral law stipulates that a second ballot will hold a runoff between the two leading candidates.
In the election for the Lord Mayor of Nuremberg, there have only been three runoff elections since the direct election of the OB in 1952: 1987, 1996 and 2002 , with an incumbent OB having to run off in 1996 and 2002.
None of the candidates standing in the 2020 election has held the office of mayor so far. A three-way battle was generally expected. In surveys, Thorsten Brehm (SPD) led Marcus König (CSU) and Verena Osgyan (Greens), but did not reach 50%. According to the polls, there was a runoff election in which Brehm and König faced each other.
| medium | date | Thorsten Brehm ( SPD ) | Marcus König ( CSU ) | Verena Osgyan ( Greens ) | Others | I do not know |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| mafotools | March 4th, 2020 | 28% | 19% | 15% | 3% | 35% |
| INSA | 02/29/2020 | 34% | 32% | 22% | 12% | - |
Election of the city council
As usual in local government , the Nuremberg city councils are volunteers. The professional city councils (referred to as speakers in Nuremberg as heads of the respective departments ) are elected by the city council for 6 years. They are members of the city council and have the right to speak but not to vote. As a rule, the elections for the speakers in Nuremberg take place shortly before the next local elections. Since the time of the award does not reflect the majority of the council in the coming period , ÖDP, FDP, Die Guten and Free Voters demanded in a joint motion that the term of office of professional city councilors does not begin until the first half of the new city council period to let. The application was rejected by the SPD, CSU and the Greens, each of which provided at least one speaker.
The Nuremberg city council consists of 71 members (70 councilors plus mayor). Since there is no threshold clause and the Sainte-Laguë procedure is used, it is possible to get a seat from around 0.75% of the votes cast. According to Art. 27 GLKrWG, parties that are not represented in the state parliament or the current city council require 610 supporters' signatures in order to run for elections. The order on the ballot paper results from Art. 33 GLKrWG u. a. from the distribution of seats in the last state election (1 CSU, 2 Greens, 3 free voters, 4 AfD, 5 SPD, 6 FDP), the last local election and the alphabet.
In contrast to the federal and state level, election polls are rarely carried out at the municipal level. It is therefore only possible to a limited extent to assess the current political mood in Nuremberg. For the 2020 election, however, some expect a three-way battle between the SPD, CSU and the Greens for a majority in the city council.
In the local elections in Bavaria, voters can cumulate and variegate , so the number of votes is greater than the pure number of voters. These votes were not counted until the Monday after the election. The preliminary official final result was therefore expected for Monday evening, but was not available until the afternoon of March 19th (Thursday) due to technical problems with the counting software.
The following candidacies failed due to a lack of support signatures and therefore did not take part in the election:
- Bavaria Party
- STRONG for Nuremberg
- volt
Election result
The preliminary final result was originally expected in the afternoon of March 16 (Monday), but was not available until the afternoon of March 19 (Thursday) due to technical problems with the counting software. However, it can be assumed that the electoral committee will make changes. The following table shows the parties or alliances that were allowed to vote on March 15, and the preliminary results of the election:
| Atomic number | Party / electoral association | Top candidate | Votes (absolute) |
Votes (in percent) |
Change compared to 2014 (in percentage points) |
Seats |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CSU | Marcus King | 3,584,755 | 31.3% | +1.9% | 22nd |
| 5 | SPD | Thorsten Brehm | 2,943,118 | 25.7% | −18.4% | 18th |
| 2 | GREEN | Andrea Friedel | 2,283,958 | 20.0% | + 11.0% | 14th |
| 4th | AfD | Roland-Alexander Huebscher | 650.369 | 5.7% | not started | 4th |
| 13 | THE LEFT | Titus Schüller | 449,450 | 3.9% | not started | 3 |
| 3 | FW | Jürgen Horst Dörfler | 324,475 | 2.8% | ± 0.0% | 2 |
| 9 | ÖDP | Jan Gehrke | 265,069 | 2.3% | + 0.2% | 2 |
| 6th | FDP | Ümit Sormaz | 227.743 | 2.1% | + 0.1% | 1 |
| 11 | PARTY / PIRATES | Florian Betz | 194,693 | 1.7% | not started | 1 |
| 14th | political gang | Ernesto Buholzer Sepúlveda | 190.710 | 1.7% | not started | 1 |
| 7th | LEFT LIST Nuremberg | Marion Padua | 151.992 | 1.3% | −2.8% | 1 |
| 10 | The good ones | Alexandra Thiele | 95,845 | 0.8% | −0.9% | 1 |
| 8th | BIA | Ralf Ollert | 62,374 | 0.6% | −2.5% | - |
| - | Invalid ballot | 4.125 | 2.3% | + 0.1% | - | |
Survey
In representative surveys, a three-way battle between the SPD, CSU and the Greens emerged. The three parties each received around 20% of the vote in several polls.
| medium | date | SPD | CSU | Green | AfD | FW | FDP |
PARTY / PIRATES |
ÖDP | LEFT | Left list Nuremberg | Others | I do not know |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| mafotools | March 4th, 2020 | 27% | 19% | 21% | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9% | 24% |
| INSA | 02/29/2020 | 24% | 24% | 24% | 6% | 4% | 4% | 4% | 3% | 3% | 2% | 2% | - |
| Election 2014 | March 16, 2014 | 44.1% | 29.4% | 9.0% | n / A | 2.8% | 2.0% | 1.7% | 2.1% | n / A | 4.1% | 4.6% | - |
Allocation of seats in the Nuremberg City Council since 1946
After the election
On Wednesday, April 1st, representatives of the CSU and the Greens met for the first exploratory talks about a possible coalition. Since the newly elected Lord Mayor Marcus König (CSU), as usual before, is aiming for a large majority in the city council, an alliance of CSU, SPD and the Greens is considered likely. The first exploratory talks between the CSU and the SPD took place on Friday, April 3rd. In the following week, meetings with all three possible alliance partners are to take place.
On April 24th, the district association of the Greens announced that there would be no three-way alliance with the CSU and the SPD due to no clear statements on the […] topic of cosmopolitan urban society .
Trivia
The size of the voting slip for the 2020 Nuremberg City Council election was 103 cm * 70 cm.
See also
- Local elections in Bavaria 2020
- Results of the local elections in Nuremberg
- Local electoral law (Bavaria)
- Administrative division of Bavaria
- List of mayors of the city of Nuremberg
Web links
- City of Nuremberg: 2020 local elections in Nuremberg
- City of Nuremberg: Announcements and information on the local elections on March 15, 2020
- City of Nuremberg: Elections in Nuremberg - election results and announcements
- City of Nuremberg: Local election in Nuremberg - information and results
- Nürnberger Nachrichten : Local elections 2020 in Nuremberg - Article on the topic
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